Homebrew Remote access to your roms from your NDS?

[Cybermage]

Hay i was wondering if there is a way to stream or remotely access my rom collection from my desktop to my ds. Has anyone heard of anything like this? i just was thinking about how cool it would be to have access to them through wifi so that even if i am out of state i could access them

~cybermage

 

[jesterscourt]

I thought there was a homebrew FTP client available. But the DS' download speed is so slow, I don't think it would be worth it, even if it would work in the way you would want to.

 

[xxRAG3]

Think about your DSes power. And how fast your internet is.
Think about it. The answer should come clearly

Spoiler

it's no

 

[jurassicplayer]

I'm pretty sure I heard that the DS capped at like 14 kb/s or something. Giving that the average decent nds file is about 60 mbs, it would take a little over an hour to transfer over one file. Of course, it would work decently for homebrew...rarely is there a piece of homebrew over 10mb, so most homebrew would transfer over in less than ten minutes maybe...that is if I'm right on the 14kb/s cap.

 

[Masked Ranger]

from here: http://faq.monroeworld.com/index.php?sid=3...&artlang=en

Talking about how long it would take to back up a commercial game using wifi:
4MB 3.5 minutes
8MB 7 minutes
16MB 13.5 minutes
32MB 27 minutes
64MB 54.5 minutes
128MB 1 hour 49 minutes

 

[Cybermage]

thanks i had no idea that the ds had a cap on the wifi but that would explain why it hasent been done. do you know if the dsi has the same problem?

 

[ChuckMcB]

It's less of a 'cap' and more of a restriction because of sub-par homebrew code. The libraries that most homebrew use can't get 'decent' speed. The folks over at DSLinux claim to be able to get much faster speeds using their WiFi Library.

ps. the FTP client talked about above is DSFTP, for the reasons above it's sloooowwww

 

[Destructobot]

It's not just a problem with homebrew, even commercial games have very slow transfer rates. Transferring download play data can take a minute or more, and that can't be more than 4MB since the DS only has 4MB of RAM.

 

[fgghjjkll]

Have a ralink wifi adapter? use flashme and WMB to send your ds demos from your pc to your ds via ds download play.